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Ten Poems about London

3.8/5 ( ratings)

London is heady, exciting, romantic - rich with tradition and with dissent, forever renewing and re-positioning itself, part real, part myth. Its public spaces can seem like historic statements, its private spaces less declamatory, quieter. Above all, London has inspired some truly great poems.

This selection ranges between William Wordsworth's sonnet of 1802 describing the early morning view from Westminster Bridge, to 'Trojan Horse' by George Szirtes, specifically commissioned for 'Ten Poems about London' and published here for the first time.

The poems capture something of the essence of London, listening in to its music, its beat. They roam its pavements, sit out under its street lamps in the dark, almost-silence of the city asleep.

Language: English

Pages: 16

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Candlestick Press

Release: February 14, 2011

ISBN: 1907598049

ISBN 13: 9781907598043

Ten Poems about London

3.8/5 ( ratings)

London is heady, exciting, romantic - rich with tradition and with dissent, forever renewing and re-positioning itself, part real, part myth. Its public spaces can seem like historic statements, its private spaces less declamatory, quieter. Above all, London has inspired some truly great poems.

This selection ranges between William Wordsworth's sonnet of 1802 describing the early morning view from Westminster Bridge, to 'Trojan Horse' by George Szirtes, specifically commissioned for 'Ten Poems about London' and published here for the first time.

The poems capture something of the essence of London, listening in to its music, its beat. They roam its pavements, sit out under its street lamps in the dark, almost-silence of the city asleep.

Language: English

Pages: 16

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Candlestick Press

Release: February 14, 2011

ISBN: 1907598049

ISBN 13: 9781907598043

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